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> nothing else is truly sentient on this planet besides us.

Your optimism is one thing, but this human supremacist stuff is just wrong. Do you think humans are a separate form of life,evolutionarily distinct from the animal kingdom or something?

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There's clearly a qualitative difference between humans and our closest relatives. There's some axis on which humans are an outlier for life on earth. I mean, we're not worried about any other animal rising up and taking over, for one.

The US isn't worried about some uncontacted hunter-gatherer tribe rising up to wipe it out either. That doesn't mean they are lesser beings.

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